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Shipton, Eric Earle (1907–1977), explorer and mountaineer  

Peter Lloyd

revised by Anita McConnell

Shipton, Eric Earle (1907–1977), explorer and mountaineer, was born on 1 August 1907 in Ceylon, the younger child and only son of Cecil Shipton, a tea planter, and his wife, Alice Lilian Earle (d. 1943). His father died before he was three and his upbringing, in his mother's hands, was characterized by constant travelling between ...

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Shipton, Eric Earle (1907–1977)  

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Eric Earle Shipton (1907–1977) by unknown photographer, 1939 [at Snow Lake, Karakoram] The Royal Geographical Society, London